An essential relative clause provides necessary, defining information about the noun. On the other hand, non‐ essential relative clauses provide additional, non‐necessary information about the noun.

Too many adjectives In a letter to one of his students, Mark Twain advised : “When you catch an adjective, kill it.” He clarified not all adjectives, but most, should be eliminated since ...

Adjectives and adverbs sprinkle paper with unnecessary clutter. ... subordinate clauses, and so on. And if it were true that modification in general was a Bad Thing, ...

“Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” I couldn’t agree more with the meaning of that slogan. But what about its grammar? Purists would argue that people don’t drive… ...

The Forum’s recent retrospective of the first of its two-part series in 2018 on reducing adjective clauses to adjective phrases drew this rejoinder last October 26 from Forum member Miss Mae: “Does ...

On the Grammar Underground blog, writer June Casagrande suggested that there are "adjectives and manner adverbs that are worth keeping." They are, "the ones that add new information." "The ones ...

Compound modifiers can be adverbs, too. Often, these compound adverbs come after the verb: She works part-time. And because adverbs can modify adjectives, as in “fabulously wealthy,” compound ...

Predicate Adjectives. Linguistics 322. Intermediate Syntax. Predicate adjectives form the basic lexical information of a clause. Consider the following sentences: (1) John is happy. (2) Mary is tall.

He holds a British passport. In the clauses, Japanese, South African and British are adjectives of origin. Our aim in today’s lesson, however, is to highlight some five characteristics of the ...

This is the concluding part of the Forum’s recent retrospective of my 2018 series on reducing adjective clauses to adjective phrases, which drew this rejoinder last October 26 from Forum member Miss ...